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Angeloni A, Fissette S, Kaya D, Hammond JM, Gamaarachchi H, Deveson IW, Klose RJ, Li W, Zhang X, Bogdanovic O. Extensive DNA methylome rearrangement during early lamprey embryogenesis. Nat Commun 2024; 15:1977. [PMID: 38438347 PMCID: PMC10912607 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46085-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2023] [Accepted: 02/13/2024] [Indexed: 03/06/2024] Open
Abstract
DNA methylation (5mC) is a repressive gene regulatory mark widespread in vertebrate genomes, yet the developmental dynamics in which 5mC patterns are established vary across species. While mammals undergo two rounds of global 5mC erasure, teleosts, for example, exhibit localized maternal-to-paternal 5mC remodeling. Here, we studied 5mC dynamics during the embryonic development of sea lamprey, a jawless vertebrate which occupies a critical phylogenetic position as the sister group of the jawed vertebrates. We employed 5mC quantification in lamprey embryos and tissues, and discovered large-scale maternal-to-paternal epigenome remodeling that affects ~30% of the embryonic genome and is predominantly associated with partially methylated domains. We further demonstrate that sequences eliminated during programmed genome rearrangement (PGR), are hypermethylated in sperm prior to the onset of PGR. Our study thus unveils important insights into the evolutionary origins of vertebrate 5mC reprogramming, and how this process might participate in diverse developmental strategies.
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Affiliation(s)
- Allegra Angeloni
- Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Genomics Pillar, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Centre for Population Genomics, Garvan Institute of Medical Research and Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
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- Genomics Pillar, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Centre for Population Genomics, Garvan Institute of Medical Research and Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Genomics Pillar, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Centre for Population Genomics, Garvan Institute of Medical Research and Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
- Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Center for Epigenetics, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, USA
- University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
- School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, CSIC-Universidad Pablo de Olavide-Junta de Andalucía, Seville, Spain.
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Timoshevskaya N, Eşkut KI, Timoshevskiy VA, Robb SMC, Holt C, Hess JE, Parker HJ, Baker CF, Miller AK, Saraceno C, Yandell M, Krumlauf R, Narum SR, Lampman RT, Gemmell NJ, Mountcastle J, Haase B, Balacco JR, Formenti G, Pelan S, Sims Y, Howe K, Fedrigo O, Jarvis ED, Smith JJ. An improved germline genome assembly for the sea lamprey Petromyzon marinus illuminates the evolution of germline-specific chromosomes. Cell Rep 2023; 42:112263. [PMID: 36930644 PMCID: PMC10166183 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2022] [Revised: 10/17/2022] [Accepted: 02/28/2023] [Indexed: 03/17/2023] Open
Abstract
Programmed DNA loss is a gene silencing mechanism that is employed by several vertebrate and nonvertebrate lineages, including all living jawless vertebrates and songbirds. Reconstructing the evolution of somatically eliminated (germline-specific) sequences in these species has proven challenging due to a high content of repeats and gene duplications in eliminated sequences and a corresponding lack of highly accurate and contiguous assemblies for these regions. Here, we present an improved assembly of the sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) genome that was generated using recently standardized methods that increase the contiguity and accuracy of vertebrate genome assemblies. This assembly resolves highly contiguous, somatically retained chromosomes and at least one germline-specific chromosome, permitting new analyses that reconstruct the timing, mode, and repercussions of recruitment of genes to the germline-specific fraction. These analyses reveal major roles of interchromosomal segmental duplication, intrachromosomal duplication, and positive selection for germline functions in the long-term evolution of germline-specific chromosomes.
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- Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
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- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, Portland, OR 97232, USA
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- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited (NIWA), Hamilton, Waikato 3261, New Zealand
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- Department of Anatomy, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, Otago 9054, New Zealand
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- Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA; Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, The University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA
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- Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, Hagerman, ID 83332, USA
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- Yakama Nation Fisheries Resource Management Program, Pacific Lamprey Project, Toppenish, WA 98948, USA
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- Department of Anatomy, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, Otago 9054, New Zealand
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- Vertebrate Genome Lab, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Vertebrate Genome Lab, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Vertebrate Genome Lab, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA; Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
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- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
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- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
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- Vertebrate Genome Lab, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Vertebrate Genome Lab, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA; Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA.
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Novel selectively amplified DNA sequences in the germline genome of the Japanese hagfish, Eptatretus burgeri. Sci Rep 2022; 12:21373. [PMID: 36494570 PMCID: PMC9734144 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-26007-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2022] [Accepted: 12/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
In the Japanese hagfish Eptatretus burgeri, 16 chromosomes (eliminated [E]-chromosomes) have been lost in somatic cells (2n = 36), which is equivalent to approx. 21% of the genomic DNA in germ cells (2n = 52). At least seven of the 12 eliminated repetitive DNA families isolated in eight hagfish species were selectively amplified in the germline genome of this species. One of them, EEEb1 (eliminated element of E. burgeri 1) is exclusively localized on all E-chromosomes. Herein, we identified four novel eliminated repetitive DNA families (named EEEb3-6) through PCR amplification and suppressive subtractive hybridization (SSH) combined with Southern-blot hybridization. EEEb3 was mosaic for 5S rDNA and SINE elements. EEEb4 was GC-rich repeats and has one pair of direct and inverted repeats, whereas EEEb5 and EEEb6 were AT-rich repeats with one pair and two pairs of sub-repeats, respectively. Interestingly, all repeat classes except EEEb3 were transcribed in the testes, although no open reading frames (ORF) were identified. We conducted fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) to examine the chromosomal localizations of EEEb3-6 and EEEb2, which was previously isolated from the germline genome of E. burgeri. All sequences were only found on all EEEb1-positive E-chromosomes. Copy number estimation of the repeated elements by slot-blot hybridization revealed that (i) the EEEb1-6 family members occupied 39.9% of the total eliminated DNA, and (ii) a small number of repeats were retained in somatic cells, suggesting that there is incomplete elimination of the repeated elements. These results provide new insights into the mechanisms involved in the chromosome elimination and the evolution of E-chromosomes.
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